After tripping their own tripwire and detonating a number of grenades, a goat from Ukraine harmed 40 Russian soldiers.
The Kremlin forces were hospitalized after they boobytrapped themselves in the town of Kinski Rozdory in Zaporizhzhia, according to Ukraine’s Chief Intelligence Directorate.
A nearby hospital’s perimeter was fortified by Putin’s soldiers with tripwires and pinned grenades as a “circular defense.”
But soon after they set the trap, a goat that had escaped from a nearby farm wandered in the direction of the hospital and cut the tripwire.
According to Ukraine, the animal started a chain reaction that injured numerous Russian soldiers.
Forty of them are currently undergoing treatment in a hospital for various wounds.
Unknown is what happened to the goat.
In order to rival Russia on the battlefield, Volodymyr Zelensky has encouraged his nation’s partners to expedite the supplies of heavy weapons.
Zelenskiy declared in a video speech on Thursday that “we must liberate our territory and win, but more swiftly, much more rapidly.”
He claimed that the goal of Moscow’s enormous air and artillery strikes is to completely destroy the Donbas region.
After its first push on the capital Kyiv was repelled by tenacious Ukrainian resistance, Russia narrowed the scope of its operations to the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine.
The twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, which span the Siverskyi Donets River in the Luhansk province, are where the war of attrition in the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, is most critical.
Oleksiy Arestovych, a Zelenskiy aide, described the conflict as “approaching a sort of terrible climax.”
Serhiy Gaidai, the governor of Luhansk, stated on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were defending Sievierodonetsk and the surrounding towns of Zolote and Vovchoyrovka, but that Russian forces had taken Loskutivka and Rai-Oleksandrivka to the south.
While Ukraine and Russia argue over control of the bombed-out city, hundreds of residents are trapped in a chemical facility in Sievierodonetsk.
Moscow claims that Ukrainian forces are encircled and besieged in the city. Gaidai, however, asserted to Ukrainian Television on Wednesday that Sievierodonetsk was not entirely under Russian control.
All of Lysychansk, according to Gaidai, was within Russian fire’s range.
Our headquarters might issue an order for the troops to withdraw to different positions in order to avoid being encircled. After last night, there might be some regrouping,’ he remarked.
According to rebels with support from Russia, who were quoted by the TASS news agency, Lysychansk is now surrounded and shut off from supplies after a route leading from the city to Sieviersk was taken.
According to the British defense ministry, several Ukrainian units withdrew, likely in an effort to escape being besieged.
Russian forces are putting the Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk enclave under growing pressure with their slow approach, according to the ministry. However, they are still unable to fully encircle western Donetsk Oblast.
Insisting that its soldiers will stay put “as long as required,” Kyiv warned yesterday that the intense Russian bombardments were making life a “hell.”
Sergiy Gaiday, the head of the Lugansk region, which encompasses both cities, posted on Telegram that “the Russian army is… absolutely destroying everything” in Lysychansk.
After four months of shelling in Severodonetsk, he subsequently remarked, “It’s absolutely horror out there.”
He continued, “Our boys are holding their positions and will keep holding on as long as necessary.”